Trump promises $2,000 payments to most Americans during Sunday morning Truth Social posting spree

[highplainsdem]

Source: Independent

President Donald Trump promised to pay almost all Americans $2,000 as he touts his tariff plan in a Truth Social posting spree.

As part of his multi-post rant touting tariffs, the president promised: “ A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.”

It’s not immediately clear when that payment would come or who qualifies as “high income.” The president mentioned no other details about the payment.

-snip-

“People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS! We are now the Richest, Most Respected Country In the World, With Almost No Inflation, and A Record Stock Market Price. 401k’s are Highest EVER,” Trump wrote Sunday morning.

-snip-

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-dividend-payment-truth-social-b2861700.html

[Clouds Passing]

1. Liar!

[DemMedic]

2. Trying to buy friends

What a Sc#mb@g

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Wouldn't need tariff refunds if there were no tariffs. Zero sum game. /nt

[GreenWave]

4. He will sign checks like Art Linkletter did with game of life money.

[gab13by13]

5. If the Supreme Court rules the tariffs were illegal,

and he must refund the money, he has an excuse for why the money is gone. I guarantee he stole most of the tariff money.

[SunSeeker]

25. Yup. Spending it on ICE, destroying the White House, and murdering South American fishermen. nt

[Katcat]

47. OR

Putting it in an account that only he has access to and then it disappears like MAGIC!

[SunSeeker]

50. He probably got a lot of tips about that from Putin. nt

[C_U_L8R]

6. He's trying to force the Supreme's hand

Daring them to take away $2000 from every family. It's a dumb bluff. No wonder this clown bankrupted casinos (among many other things).

[Nigrum Cattus]

7. Really ?

280,000,000 adults
presume 80% would qualify by income
that's 224,000,000 x $2,000 = $448,000,000,000
448 Billion
that ain't gunna happen

[underpants]

11. Thanks. I was going to use a round number like 300M

but I get what you chose.

Basically 1/2 a trillion dollars. Your right. No way.

[Grins]

22. And $2,000 $167 a month. Not close to actual costs.

And what happens a year later? Another paltry $2,000? From Republicans?

[Ontheroad]

14. That would cover 4 1/2 years of food stamps.

I'd rather we spent it on that.

[Wiz Imp]

18. Total revenue from tariffs in FY 2025? $195 billion.

So he wants to pay out 2 1/2 times as much money as has been taken in. This is strictly trying to buy future votes, while exploding the debt even further.

[Hugin]

21. As long as he can get 30% of the population sitting on the edge of seats and gibbering about their Trumpbates...

(Or is that Trumpbait?) he doesn’t even have to cough up a penny (if the mint even made them anymore.)

[Bengus81]

8. Watch for this "buy a vote" BS to ramp up as we inch closer to the mid-terms

Like his concept of a plan for a new ACA this will NEVER happen either..........

[karynnj]

9. Even if this happened, I think many would be

better off with legislation that continued the Medicaid expansion and SNAP and other benefits.

Anyone who was on Medicaid and lost it through his bill, will need more than $2000 this year to be where they were at before he took office. For those on ACA, they will experience a big increase in costs due to the need to consider a larger amount of people without insurance at hospitals in their rates in conjunction with losing the extended subsidy that helped pay for it.

This is before considering the higher prices paid because of the taxes. Even with his attacks on the BLS, which always calculated government statistics, it is clear there IS inflation.

He should remember in 2024, saying that the government was succeeding in bringing down inflation, was not enough even as it was true. People saw that prices were higher than in 2020 during the worst of Covid.

[Wiz Imp]

28. 100% True.

The average SNAP household received a monthly benefit of $332. That works out to $3984 per year.

The average annual increase in Health Insurance premiums for those who currently receive the subsidies is $1016. However for many, the increase would be significantly higher than that. For example:

A typical 60-year-old couple making $85,000 (401 percent of the poverty level) will see monthly marketplace premiums jump from $602 to $2,647 — an annual increase of roughly $24,500.

A typical family of four making $130,000 (404 percent of the poverty level) will see their monthly marketplace premium go from $921 to $1,992 — an annual increase of about $12,900.

a 60-year-old West Virginia couple making $85,000 will see annual premiums for a benchmark silver plan skyrocket from $7,225 to over $54,000.

?itok=z2y8H__m

See appendix tables 1 & 2 at the following link:
https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/health-insurance-premium-spikes-imminent-as-tax-credit-enhancements-set-to-expire

[paleotn]

52. It can't happen. It's totally nuts on its face.

Simple math. Multiply 245 million Americans (340 million residents, less foreign nationals and "high income" people) X $2,000. That's hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars. Even if you assume it's $2K per household, that's still over a hundred BILLION dollars. The man is out of his fucking mind.

[karynnj]

58. I followed the math and know it will not happen

[underpants]

10. Meanwhile....at Mar a Lago...

The announcement comes days after Trump attended a lavish dinner party at Mar-a-Lago as the longest-ever government shutdown drags on. As many Americans turn to food banks during the shutdown, the event Trump attended featured a three-course menu of beef filet, truffle dauphinoise, pan-seared scallops and a trio of desserts, including “Trump chocolate cake.”

[Henry203]

35. Where is a guillotine when you need one

[Irish_Dem]

39. I keep asking if France will lend us theirs.

[KPN]

53. Somebody posted plans (blueprint) for one here a few days back. Are you handy?

[Hugin]

36. Of course, the entire menu at Mar-a-loco would generate snorts and loud scornful unsolicited comments...

From everyday MAGAts, if they appeared in the shopping carts of SNAP recipients or Federal employees.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

12. The stupidity of this waste of O2 continues to amaze me, and those that buy his lies

are just as stupid.

Fuel prices in my area have increased by .46 cents in the last 6 days, grocery prices and medical costs are increasing by the day, if not by the hour, Americans are going hungry, starting to lose their homes, cars, etc.

This POS needs to be impeached in the House, which ain't going to happen because that worthless MAGAt pedophile protector, M. Johnson, is sucking Been A Dick Donalds dick and doing his bidding, and tried, convicted and removed from power in the Senate, but, again, that won't happen because the repigs have a spine of Jello and are afraid of getting on the wrong side of this man.

[MissouriDem47]

13. It Won't Happen

Why would anyone with more than 2 brain cells believe anything he says?

[Polybius]

24. I think it's possible that he may do it right before the 2026 midterms

Republicans might think it'll help them. It won't.

[BOSSHOG]

15. Wow that sure made me forget about Epstein, how bout you?

[mwmisses4289]

26. Yeah for about 5 seconds.

[markie]

16. this government

just keeps getting more stupid every day

Morons
Are
Governing
America

[Vinca]

17. Crumbs for the masses. Would that even buy a meal at the wannabe king's beach estate?

[turbinetree]

19. Hey traitor I have a small idea how about you resign first ....................better yet ...........why not just give

everyone $2000 a day 7 days a week or $60,000.00 a month per person you know 330 plus million people in the country. Which is about 19 billion a month..............how's about that nonsense that I just spewed since it's just like yours...........

[Wiz Imp]

33. $60,000 per month for each person in the country...

(which is actually around 340 million), would be $20 Trillion per month, not $19 billion.

[turbinetree]

62. I did my math as follows

2000 per day x 330 million people x 30 days = $19, 800, 000.00 billion per month...........my calculator does not go into trillions............fuzzy math........... and a to you thank you for the correction..............

[ananda]

20. Boy that's some cloudcuckooland he's touting.

He must think most people live there and would
be conned into liking it.

Maybe a lot of them do, but that many? I don't
think so.

[ashredux]

23. LOL 😂 he scrambling folks, looking for a way out of the hole he's digging

He’s offering a bribe, and it’s damn cheap offer that… he needs to get to seven figures for he’s gonna get my attention.

It’s crazy. It’s just crazy.

[YodaMom2]

27. Even if he plans to use "tariff" money, that's not his personal f*cking slush fund.

And it’s money the American people paid anyway (though he still insists other countries pay it…because he’s stupid).

But don’t discount the effect it would have if he was able to finagle some kind of payment to Americans. He’d insist that *his name* appear on the check, just as he did with that $200 check during his first term. This worked with a lot of people - I know of more than a few who actually voted for him in 2024 because he “gave them money”, and none those other politicians gave them anything. These folks truly believed he was giving them HIS OWN MONEY.

[twodogsbarking]

29. We are no longer living on planet earth. It has been renamed PLANET TRUMP.

[mwmisses4289]

30. And it'll happen in two weeks...

No, two months...no, two years...okay, it's a concept of a plan that'll happen in two weeks!

[twodogsbarking]

31. You first must sign an oath to his almighty.

[durablend]

61. Probably implied on the endorsement line on the back

[Javaman]

32. Yeah cool story bro🙄

He tries to bribe with lies

[Maninacan]

34. 30k

My house could use 30k a year for insurance and the deductible.

[twodogsbarking]

37. You could get groceries for life.

If you only live two months.

[Bristlecone]

40. He is delusional. As is anyone who believes this bullshit

“The check’s in the mail!”

[hay rick]

41. Play money.

[Gore1FL]

42. The House would need to be open to pass such a bill. nt

[pandr32]

43. He has no intention of following through.

He is very unpopular and needs to feel special so he is gaslighting with a promised gift. My ex used to do this whenever he hit uncomfortable status. He promised the kids and I trips that never happened, but in that moment he felt like Santa. He coasted on the hope for a while, and so did we.
Donold needs some love and some more time to plunder our nation.

[stollen]

44. Trump: "I Promise"

Read no further.

[JoseBalow]

45. Just more drumpf bullshit

If there was money he could give away, he'd look for a way to funnel it to himself. Is there anyone dumb enough to actually believe otherwise?

[progree]

46. "With Almost No Inflation?" Latest is CPI is up 3.0% from a year ago, and running at a 3.6% average annualized rate

in the last 3 months.

It's not comforting to me at all that the last 3 months have averaged 3.6% (annualized) for both the CPI and the core CPI. The 3 month average is my favorite gauge of RECENT inflation. The 1 month number can be dismissed as a "one off", while the 12 month average (year-over-year) has too much old data in it to be considered a good measure of RECENT inflation -- half the months are March 2025 or older, for example. Four of the months are Biden-era months.

Regular CPI


More graphs at: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3552722

News report from the source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
CPI data series: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SA0
CORE CPI data series: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SA0L1E

[paleotn]

48. Almost ALL Americans? That don't math, Donnie...

340.1 million people in the US. Assume 10% are foreign nationals and ineligible. A very high figure, but go with it. That leaves 306 million US citizens. Assume 20% are "high earners" and ineligible. Probably a high figure as well. 245 million Americans are eligible X $2,000 each = ~ $490 BILLION DOLLARS! Crazy. By household perhaps? Assuming 3 persons per household average, that's ~$163 BILLION DOLLARS.

The man is fucking nuts. Lock his crazy ass up.

[Scrivener7]

49. Sure, Jan.

[bluestarone]

51. Another one of his memory lapses.

That $2000 is going to the billionaires i'm sure. He just got confused again.

[lonely bird]

54. My God

He is a complete idiot.

[C_U_L8R]

55. So he's going to drive an even bigger hole in the debt

Robbing Americans blind through tariffs and tossing out table scraps so every house gets a Trump-embossed pittance?
And he expects the country to be grateful? Fuck off, you crook. Just fuck off.

[Prairie Gates]

56. Apart from this initial reporting, not a single journalist will follow up on this insane claim

the substance of which will be forgotten in a week by all but the hardcore MAGAs, who will be absolutely sure that it happened.

[orangecrush]

57. Fuckiing idiot

[mahina]

59. Taking that to the bank

Not

[bluestarone]

60. This scares me.

I do worry if Americans are that stupid.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

63. A bit of financial advice: Don't spend that $2000 until you have it in hand.

This advice is worth every penny you paid for it!

[RANDYWILDMAN]

64. 2k + 5k in the last promise equals 7k

righteous bucks, but like Spicoli saving Brooke shields it was a dream !

Besides the 7k is only adding to the debt Trump has already added to by giving bigger than 7k tax breaks to people with seven figures in their net worth!